Loom-temple



Nfl. ALLEN. Loom-Temple;

No. 223,976. Parentd Feb'. 3, Isso.

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NICHOLAS I. ALLEN, OF SOMERVILLE, ASSIGNOR TO WM. F. DRAPER, OF

HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS.

Loom-TEM PLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,976, dated February 3, 1880.

` Application med Augsn 11, 1379.

To all whom t may concern:

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Be it known that I, NrcHoLAs I. ALLEN, of Somerville, county of Middlesex, State ofMassachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Loom-Temples, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

Thisinvention relates to loom-temples; and it consists in the combination, with'a reciprocatory temple-bar and an elbow-lever loosely connected therewith, of a spring-controlled link attached to the opposite end of the lever to throw the templebar forward.

Figure l is a top view of part of a loomtemple and stand and bar containing my invenf tion;V Fig. 2, a front view, the cap and trough being in section; and Fig. 3, a section on the line .r m,`Fig.`1. p

The temple-plate a, suitably slotted, as at b, for purposes ofadiustment, is to be secured to the rear of the breast-beam of the loom facing the lay. This plate has a lug, c, upon which is pivoted the elbow-lever d, having an attached heel, e, the said lever being, near its heel part, connected loosely by a screw, f, extended, as herein shown, into a slot made in an ear, g,of the temple-trough g. The other end, 2, of the lever d is connected with a link, h, extended into or guided by a pivoted guide, t', held by the ears 3 of the plate a. A spiral spring, j, surrounding'this link or rod h, and made adjustable as to its pressure by a block, lc, and set-screw Z, exerts a tendency to press theA said `rod in the direction of the arrow, which keeps the temple-roller forward to the cloth-making point. p

The forward position of the templebar m is.

regulated by the adjustablwe block matta-cheri to it, and placed within a groove at the under side of the temple-stand 0, as in Fig. 3.

The temple-stand o has, at its front end, an eye-piece or bored lug, o?, to fit upon a horizontal stud, r, (shown also in dotted 1ines,) substantially parallel with the breast-beam, the said stand being adjustablyconnected with the said stud by an adjusting or set screw, is, to thereby enable the temple-roller at the end of the reciprocatory templebar in the said stand to be adjusted to the proper height with relation tothe race of the lay. The stud r is 5o held in the ear r2, attached to plate a.

The temple-roller is composed of hollow end blocks, t, having inclined faces 4 5, of a shell `or sleeve, u, provided with a series of parallel grooves, a central rod, fw, and of a series of toother bars, x, placed in the said grooves, the ends of the said bars being shouldered to extend `under the edges of the hollow end blocks, t, the said blocks, during the rotation action ofthe sliding bar and the springj. This temple-roller, not by itself herein claimed, is fitted to turn between the trough and a cap part, a', suitably attached to and so as to move with the temple-bar.

The lay strikes the heel and moves the temple-bar backward as the filling is beat up by the reed, and the cloth runs between the temple-roller and trough, thereby enabling the cloth to be kept down near the race-board, whereas in most other temple-rollers having teeth moving longitudinally with relation to the roller the cloth has been passed over the roller, and provision was not Iliade whereby the cloth could be passed under them.

I claim- A temple-holding plate, a temple-stand, and reciprocatory temple-bar, combined with an elbow-lever connected at one end loosely with the bar, or a part thereof, and a link and spring to actuate the lever and press the temple-bar forward, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signedm y name to this speciiication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

NICHOLAS I. ALLEN.

Witnesses G. W. GREGORY, N. E. WHITNEY. 

